Newnham College, Cambridge, by Basil Champneys (1842-1935)

Newnham College,
Cambridge, by Basil Champneys (1842-1935). From 1874-c.1910.
Image scanned from "Review of the Architectural Work of Basil
Champneys, B. A.," p. 52. Here, Champneys used the Queen Anne style that he currently
favoured for domestic architecture, complete with picturesque bow and
oriel windows and dormers, believing that women's colleges should be
"of a more domestic character," and adopting what he called the
"Domestic Collegiate" style. In the same paper, delivered at the Royal
Institute of British Architects in 1903, he explained that "the scheme
as it now stands has been developed piecemeal; has started from small
beginnings and grown step by step" (qtd. in Vickery 69). Every new
addition, he explained, had seemed to be the last, but had later
proved inadequate due to an increase in student numbers — a
wonderful sign of the changes in expectation and opportunities for
young women, even in this early period.

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